Music Soul Quotes

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

I consider what I do soul music, it's music that is concerned with the soul.

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.

I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

I don't know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow my heart mixed them both together as I made my albums.

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.

Soul music is timeless.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

Music's the medicine of the mind.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.

I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz and soul music like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and The Rat Pack and swing music.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. ... Singing is an acting role within itself...I've gone through a lot of trial and error to find what works and what doesn't. With that comes an understanding of how to offer the same opportunities to other artists. ... In my opinion the world is in need of real soul music. ... I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace. ... I'm a younger Morgan Freeman. ... I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents’ record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn’t that, it was something else in their collection.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

I always like to serve the people some good soul music, and Christmas was just the cherry on top.

When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each others hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection.

I always try to write about something that's actually happened or it doesn't always have to have happened to me, but it has to have happened at some point. So every single lyric that you hear comes from some kind of story that I've come across in my life. I like to think that that maybe helps me mean it a bit more and if you don't mean it, it ceases to be soul music.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from a deeper place. Duffy has that similar old school soul sound to herself. If I opened for Duffy, that would make sense to me, in my head.

If you listen to soul music, or R&B music, or Blues music, a lot of that came from church music and spiritual music, and music has always been a really really powerful tool that people have used to get them closer to God - whatever they define God as. And for me that's always been part of what drew me to it and keeps me coming back for more.

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

The earth has music for those who listen.

One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on to all this Soul music back in the day.

I like not thinking when I am working. I thrive on that feeling of attempting to move on total instinct and inner feelings... that to me is "soul"; soul music. Almost everyone else uses a great deal of thought processes... they are idea men.

I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Music can change the world.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

For me, the highlight was meeting all the Motown acts, as I adore black soul music. I met Stevie Wonder who I love, and Diana Ross And The Supremes. I also met The Carpenters. I was actually there in the studio when they recorded We've Only Just Begun.

I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

Where words fail, music speaks.